Hi, Perhaps a long overdue stupid question time, but why are we spending lots of effort altering Ant installations , altering bash files and bat scripts, altering jar files etc. Lots of pain in making it compatible with multiple windows versions etc….
Looking at http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=700693 <http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=700693> and I’ve checked the other revisions noted in upgrading Ant etc. But, before embarking on a mission, thought I would ask the simple question, why are we packaging Ant? Why not let developers install a (compatible) version of Ant themselves ? Would be an awful lot easier for us to not have to maintain and upgrade a packaged Ant, and especially at release time. But I guess Im missing something obvious as to why this needs to be. In reference to: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1246 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1246> Thanks Gav…
